Anne Nordhaus-Bike Art

Delicious hot pink and purple. This watercolor painting puts enthusiasm onto paper to create instant joy.

Original: Original watercolor painting

Signature: Signed at lower right by the artist

Size: 23 1/2 x 17 1/4 inches (framed)

Professionally framed and ready to hang: Enjoy it now in your home or office!

Certified: All original paintings come with a certificate of authenticity

Shipping: Original artwork ships free in continental U.S.!

A Word From Anne

Do you need a lift back into life's happiness?

Happy Mist has you covered.

Hot pink (with a dash of peach) on the top. Purple (with bits of blue) on the bottom. It simply vibrates with joy.

Where the top and bottom meet, they blend into a happy mist that suggests a horizon line. Or maybe it's a "magic line," where things combine and create happiness on a moment's notice. 

Gaze at that line, and turn any moment around whenever you need a boost back into joy.

The bottom could be a colorful purple-blue body of water, or maybe it's Earth as it starts to look dark or shadowed as the Sun goes down (or that special way it looks when the Sun is getting ready to rise). The upper half, filled with big and bold pink brushstrokes, presents the lively sky as it changes with the "always in motion" Sun.

Together, they form a playful, happy, and colorful vision - your key to realigning with happiness at any moment.

Put that magical power of color to work in your life. Place this happy painting in your home or office to make it your "happy place."

Created With All Premium, Professional Grade Artist Materials

• 100% cotton watercolor paper: durability with beautiful natural grain
• Classic 140 pound weight paper is cold pressed for exquisite, even texture
• Acid free paper: painting retains its luster and vibrance and stands the test of time; it remains beautiful for centuries without conservation if stored and handled properly
• Highest quality watercolor paints: vibrant, super-saturated color
• The most finely ground watercolors in the world: colors have high intensity and purity
• Artist grade watercolors allow paint application all the way from delicate, nearly invisible transparency through deep, nearly opaque intensity

Museum-Quality Framing

• Custom framed: highest professional quality and attention to detail
• Light birchwood frame: subtle color and wood grain complement painting, put focus on color and brushwork
• Museum grade, archival white mat: preserves and highlights colorful painting
• Top quality glass: covers and protects painting 
  
• Professional grade framing hardware: screws securely anchor hardware into frame; framing wire is smooth to protect your hands and your walls
• Fully covered back: protects frame and painting, gives smooth, neat appearance
• Felt rounds on back at lower left and right: cushion painting after hanging and protect your walls

More Details: Provenance

Happy Mist

• Created 2017
• Exhibited in artist's solo show, Implied Horizons: Watercolors By Anne Nordhaus-Bike, Five Seasons Family Sports Club, Northbrook, IL, Nov. 3 – Dec. 2, 2017
• Exhibited in solo show, Implied Horizons: Watercolors By Anne Nordhaus-Bike, Five Seasons Family Sports Club, Burr Ridge, IL, Dec. 7, 2018 – Jan. 5, 2019

Media Coverage

• “Watercolors to be displayed at sports club,” Cook County Chronicle, Dec. 5, 2018
• “Art Show,” Gazette Chicago, Dec. 2018
• “Art Exhibit by Anne Nordhaus-Bike,” Chicago Metromix, Dec. 2018
• “Implied Horizons,” Gazette Chicago, Dec. 2018
• “Anne Nordhaus-Bike, Implied Horizons,” The Visualist, Nov./Dec. 2018
• “Clearing Artist To Exhibit Watercolors,” Clear Ridge Reporter And Newshound, Nov. 21, 2018
• “Clearing Artist To Exhibit Watercolors,” Southwest News-Herald, Nov. 16, 2018
• “Art Show,” Gazette Chicago, July 2017
• “Northbrook’s Anne Nordhaus-Bike set to display art at Five Seasons,” The Northbrook Tower, Oct. 19, 2017
• “Watercolor Art Exhibit Opens at Five Seasons Northbrook on November 3rd,” Daily Herald, Oct. 19, 2017